Research Interests: Sociocultural processes in development of literacy and reasoning strategies; parent-child conversations as contexts for development of literacy and scientific ways of knowing; linguistic factors that impact literacy and reasoning.

Luciana had an Early Stage Researcher fellowship, working on Workpackage 5.

Research Interest: Educational and social psychology. Social inclusion through early childhood education and care. Literacy development in typical and atypical populations. Implicit versus explicit learning and their roles in spelling development. Literacy intervention plans.

Clara had an Early Stage Researcher Fellowship, working on Workpackage 3.

Research Interests: reading comprehension processes and development, vocabulary acquisition, development and evaluation of evidence-based intervention programs, statistics and research methods in the social sciences.